---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property; governmental body authorized to allow condemned abandoned state road to revert back to original landowner once deemed unusable"
description: "Property & Estates; Transportation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Alabama SB 42 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property & Estates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-21T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2494d92-8fe5-48b3-a68f-96eeca2083d2"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "9f21fd40c585ce545975cc9808bcb7094fcb7883cdeaff9f6b1d814e033a81b2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
---

# Alabama SB 42 (2025rs) — Property; governmental body authorized to allow condemned abandoned state road to revert back to original landowner once deemed unusable

Property & Estates; Transportation

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB42-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB42-eng.pdf)
3. **Melson motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 126** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/MS4X3H1-1.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1208** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/MSS8J11-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1209** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/FKKVF55-1.pdf)
6. **Stutts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 127** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/XD8SUZZ-1.pdf)
7. **Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/DGG9CTH-1.pdf)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB42-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Melson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-05-21T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Melson Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1047
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1210 `passage`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1209
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Crawford 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1208
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Engrossed Substitute Offered (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure 1st Amendment (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 128 `passage`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Stutts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 127
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Stutts 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Melson motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 126
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Melson 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2494d92-8fe5-48b3-a68f-96eeca2083d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).